We Remember D-Day Shaw Frank
We Remember D-Day Shaw Frank 'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to…
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We Remember D-Day Shaw Frank
'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had landed directly in front of the muzzle of a German Machine Gun and I received a burst of fire straight at me. Fortunately, it wasn't long before my feet hit the ground with a thud.
I lay there rather dazed for a while, expecting to be hit again at any moment.' John Hunter, Parachute Regiment, Northants.Seventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, a great Allied Armada landed on the coast of Normandy. I can remember being hit and spinning round with a sudden yell of shock and finishing up flat on my back... The invasion force launched on D-Day was a size never seen before and never likely to be seen again.
150,000 soldiers, more than 6,000 ships and 11,000 combat aircraft took part in the assault. The